Hi, Im trying to install a new USB printer in puppy. Ive always struggled with usb printers, but have always managed to source second hand parallel printers that work fine with puppy. Ive always encountered this problem with USB printers on puppy. This includes the printers with built in usb drivers.

Im trying to install on both puppy linux 4.1.1 and pup 2.15ce (ecopup with puppy with the CUPS 0.3 addon). On both versions, after running the setup steps in the CUPS printer interface window (at localhost:631), I get the message next to the newly installed S20 printer (after selecting usb printer #1) on the setup steps for "add new printer". The only difference being on the puppy 2.15ce setup (with pakts CUPS0.3.pup installed) is next to entry for usb printer #1 it says "Usb Printer #1 (Epson Stylus s20). Puppy 2.15ce seems to be picking up the fact there is this printer installed while puppy 4.1.1 does not.

Code:

"usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device"

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I installed the additional printer drivers from openprinting.org, and copied them to the /usr/share/cups/model directory.

The puppy wiki seems inexplicably absent of any instructions for installing usb printers.

Has anyone had any success with puppy and usb printers? Parallel printers are getting pretty hard to come by._________________Puppy Linux's Mission

Cindy is using ecopup, which is a customized 2.15ce. The automatic upgrade to a modern base would break a lot of things and take a LOT if work (I know Ive already tried several times). I am planning to update the base when the new community edition comes out, as these tend to be more complete, have more drivers and are supported for longer.

In the meantime Im a bit stuck, Cindy is actually on the testing team for 4.2, but I wouldnt like her to have to rely on a stock puppy linux for her day-to-day work.

I did a pfind file searc for ghostscript, and found a symlink in /usr/bin/ghostscript to /usr/bin/gsc . I tried running this in a terminal to start it manually and resent the print job, but still nothing.

I also noticed that the pdf driver wizard is set to the wrong path, it should be going to /root or /root/my-documents, but instead is going to a new directory (which cups creates) called /export/pdf. I will report as a bug to the 4.2 dev team

I wonder if the problem has to do with your USB ports. Many computers more than five years old will only have USB1.0 and USB1.1 ports. There was a problem reported with some recent Puppies where the USB drivers were not all loaded.

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